June/July Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 5. process where a young animal emerges from its egg
- 7. reuse discarded objects or material to create a product of higher quality
- 9. organism that feeds on dead plant and animal material and causes it to decay
- 10. person who campaigns to bring about political or social change
- 13. sit on eggs to keep them warm and bring them to hatching
- 14. place to dispose of waste materials by burying and covering with soil
- 15. observe and check the progress or quality of something over time; keep under systematic review
- 16. raising young birds of prey in an artificial nest for release into the wild
Down
- 1. favorable set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something
- 2. reintroducing a rescued or captive-bred animal to its natural habitat
- 3. accumulation of earth and stones carried and finally deposited by a glacier
- 4. device for recording visual images or video signals
- 6. any filament, fiber, or yarn that can be made into fabric or cloth, or a product made from woven fibers
- 8. behavior in which newly born birds and some mammals follow one of the first objects they see
- 11. mushroom or toadstool with pores rather than gills on the underside of the cap
- 12. arrival or entry of large numbers of people or things